Writing Systems
Projects on writing systems: input methods, fonts, datasets and tools.
Han
character


Han Input
Find a Chinese character from whatever you know about it: a code, a reading, a part, a stroke count or a meaning.
Not public yethan-compose
Draws a character from its ideographic description sequence as font outlines, using parts of characters the font already has.
GitHub
漢字組直しクイズ
A quiz: put the parts of Han characters back together to find the word.
han-reasm.mkpo.liHangul
from the opening line of the Hunminjeongeum Eonhae
Kana


Kureedo クレード
A Klee One derivative with historical kana that ordinary Japanese fonts leave out, plus Ainu small kana.
kureedo.mkpo.li
源萃 GenZui
A serif and a sans from Noto Serif and Sans JP, with hentaigana, historical kana and Unicode 18 additions.
genzui.mkpo.li- honkoku-toolbox Input helpers for transcribing classical Japanese books. Greasy Fork
- みんなで翻刻クライアント A desktop client for Minna de Honkoku, the crowdsourced transcription platform for pre-modern Japanese documents. GitHub
- google-ime-kana-font A Windhawk mod that shows historical kana ligatures in Google Japanese Input's candidate window. GitHub
Ainu
small ㇷ with a semi-voiced mark, for final p
Across scripts


Glyph Atlas 字形大圖譜
A dataset of character forms in pre-modern books of the Sinosphere: crops, transcriptions, code points and variants. Data under CC BY-SA 4.0, with image and text rights recorded per record.
glyphatlas.org

IDS Workshop
Write ideographic description sequences with a parts palette and a composed preview. Reads Han, Chữ Nôm and Tangut.
ids.mkpo.liLayout
the 訓 of 訓読, kanbun kundoku








